Neutra’s Kaufmann House For Sale

posted October 31, 2007

Commissioned by Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr., the Pittsburgh department store magnate who had commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright about a decade earlier to build Fallingwater in Pennsylvania, the house was designed by Richard Neutra in 1946 as a desert retreat in Palm Springs, California. The house’s current owners plan to auction the house at Christie’s in New York in May 2008. Its presale estimate is $15 to $25 million.